Semester Test 6th Reading

Climax

• has monsters, magic, or characters with superpowers
• a category of genre
• the peak of action
• before the action

The repetition of the same initial consonant sounds.

• Symbolism
• Idiom
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia

Folklore

• funny, rhyming, and has five lines
• writing that is true
• stories once passed down orally
• expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in highly musical verse

Words that say one thing but mean another.

• Literal Language
• Figurative Language
• Simile
• Personification

Comparing two things by saying one thing is another.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Symbolism

Protagonist

• what the story is about
• the people (or animals, or personified things presented in the story)
• the main character, the hero, the "good guy"
• has no elements of fantasy; could be true but isn’t

A common saying that cannot be taken literally.

• Literal Language
• Simile
• Idiom
• Onomatopoeia

Genre

• a category of writing
• Japanese form of poetry about nature, made up of three lines
• funny, rhyming, and has five lines
• does not have set structure, does not rhyme

A person, place, or object that represents something else.

• Figurative Language
• Personification
• Symbolism
• Alliteration

Giving human characteristics to non-living things

• Literal Language
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Hyperbole